2009 Silver Birch Award - Winner
2009 Red Maple Award - Shortlisted
2009 Best Books for Kids & Teens - Commended
2008 CLA Book of the Year for Children Award - Longlisted

For Tara and her brother, Suraj, the year their mother and grandfather fled the village of Morni in the middle of the night has been a nightmare. Their new stepmother is cruel and deceptive, and the village itself is lacking a healer. What's more, men of the village have been disappearing, often returning in a strange, altered form.

When a new healer, Zarku, a mysterious man with a third eye possessing strange power, suddenly appears in Morni, all are mesmerized by his magic - all except Tara, who sees through his evil disguise.

With nothing but her own courage and wit, Tara tries to find her missing mother and grandfather, the true healer, in time to save her village. But along the way she must enlist the help of the god Ganesh and the lord of death, Yama, or she, like others before her, will fall victim to Zarku's third eye.

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards. It was recognised in the Silver Birch category by the Ontario Library Association Forest of Reading Awards. It was recognised in the Red Maple Award category by the Ontario Library Association Forest of Reading Awards. It also was recognised by the Best Books for Kids & Teens. It was recognised in the Book of the Year Award - Children category by the Canadian Library Association Book Awards.

This is volume 1 in Tara Trilogy .

There are 240 pages in this book. This book was published 2007 by Dundurn Group Ltd .

A native of Mumbai (Bombay), Mahtab Narsimhan has always been fascinated by Indian mythology. This comes together with the unique cultural and spiritual energies of her homeland in her exciting first novel, The Third Eye . Mahtab lives in Toronto with her husband, Rahul, and her son, Aftab.

This book has the following chapters: Part One: The Great Ones; Part Two: The Ten Best Italian Artist Lists and the Recordings; Part Three: The Newer Fellers; Part Four: Special Features; Part Five: Honourable Mentions.